Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, is waiting to die in Iran by a method of execution described by her lawyer as "barbaric" -- stoning.
She will be buried up to her chest, deeper than a man would be, and the stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately, according to an Amnesty International report that cited the Iranian penal code...
Ashtiani was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interview from Tehran.
She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency.
Iran's supreme court upheld the conviction in 2007.
Mostafaei believes a language barrier prevented his client from fully comprehending court proceedings. Ashtiani is of Azerbaijani descent and speaks Turkish, not Farsi....
"We have grave concerns that the punishment does not fit the alleged crime, " Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley said Thursday. "For a modern society such as Iran, we think this raises significant human rights concerns."
Calling Iran's judicial system "disproportionate" in its treatment of women, Crowley said, "From the United States' standpoint, we don't think putting women to death for adultery is an appropriate punishment."...
Article 74 of the Iranian penal code requires at least four witnesses -- four men or three men and two women -- for an adulterer to receive a stoning sentence, said Mina Ahadi, coordinator for the International Committee Against Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani's case. Often, said Ahadi, husbands turn wives in to get out of a marriage....
oh yes. we are concerned that stoning this woman to death "isn't appropriate".
gah, it makes me long for the dying days of the british empire, when the british viceroy, upon being informed that it was just indian practice to burn women to death, replied that that was fine - and it was his practice to hang men who killed women.
and people still think we can just have peaceful talks with Iranian leaders and come to terms with our disagreements.
There are no state executions where I live.As long as the U.S. is still gassing or electrocuting prisoners to death, you have no business pointing the finger.
As long as the U.S. is still gassing or electrocuting prisoners to death, you have no business pointing the finger.
As long as the U.S. is still gassing or electrocuting prisoners to death, you have no business pointing the finger.
As long as the U.S. is still gassing or electrocuting prisoners to death, you have no business pointing the finger.
As long as the U.S. is still gassing or electrocuting prisoners to death, you have no business pointing the finger.
As long as the U.S. is still gassing or electrocuting prisoners to death, you have no business pointing the finger.
Why are you so worried about what is happening in other countries and why are you particularly bothered about how Iran treats its citizens?
Why are you so worried about what is happening in other countries and why are you particularly bothered about how Iran treats its citizens?
Why are you so worried about what is happening in other countries and why are you particularly bothered about how Iran treats its citizens?
I dont know if some of the responses on this thread are being made for the sake of writing, but why does it come as such a shock to you that an Islamic regime with severely eroded civil liberties and big-brother like government policies have decided to stone a woman?
Who here has expressed shock?
I have only seen revulsion and a couple of feeble attempts at apologia.
Why can't we be concerned or have an opinion on what another country does?
Ok then. Why is anybody "surprised". Seriously, this was expected of Iran. I know A LOT of guys in the UK who have run away from the regime. They have a lot of gruesome stories to tell!
I've seen people on this and other forums saying that this kind of stuff doesn't actually happen in Iran, that it's all western propaganda.
Ok then. Why is anybody "surprised". Seriously, this was expected of Iran. I know A LOT of guys in the UK who have run away from the regime. They have a lot of gruesome stories to tell!
Why do you equate revulsion with surprise? Do you actually think that a person needs to be surprised by something to find it barbaric? Certainly the two indulging in the apologia already knew of it, and the motivation for their sophistry here is unknown, but offering apologia is not the only result possible among those who know about it. A person can very well know it is occuring and continuing to occur, while also continuing to denounce it.
I find your insistance that there is some element of "surprise" here, or the fact you seem to find that meaningful to be most odd. I can't speak for anybody else, but if I am surprised at all, it would be that people can know full well what is going on, butstill be driven to defend it through the apologia they are offering. Now, THAT mystifies me.
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